Definitions for Mercury
Mercury
mer·cu·ry
Spelling: [mur-kyuh-ree]
IPA: /ˈmɜr kyə ri/
Mercury is a 7 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 79 anagrams from letters in Mercury (cemrruy).
Definitions for Mercury
noun
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Chemistry. a heavy, silver-white, highly toxic metallic element, the only one that is liquid at room temperature; quicksilver: used in barometers, thermometers, pesticides, pharmaceutical preparations, reflecting surfaces of mirrors, and dental fillings, in certain switches, lamps, and other electric apparatus, and as a laboratory catalyst. Symbol: Hg; atomic weight: 200.59; atomic number: 80; specific gravity: 13.546 at 20°C; freezing point: −38.9°C; boiling point: 357°C.
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Pharmacology. this metal as used in medicine, in the form of various organic and inorganic compounds, usually for skin infections.
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(initial capital letter) the ancient Roman god who served as messenger of the gods and was also the god of commerce, thievery, eloquence, and science, identified with the Greek god Hermes.
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(initial capital letter) Astronomy. the planet nearest the sun, having a diameter of 3031 miles (4878 km), a mean distance from the sun of 36 million miles (57.9 million km), and a period of revolution of 87.96 days, and having no satellites: the smallest planet in the solar system.
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a messenger, especially a carrier of news.
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any plant belonging to the genus Mercurialis, of the spurge family, especially the poisonous, weedy M. perennis of Europe.
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Good-King-Henry.
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(initial capital letter) Aerospace. one of a series of U.S. spacecraft, carrying one astronaut, that achieved the first U.S. suborbital and orbital manned spaceflights.
Origin of Mercury
1300-50; Middle English Mercurie Medieval Latin, Latin Mercurius, akin to merx goods
Examples for Mercury
The mercury in the barometer was falling, and so was the rain.
“Harry Belafonte told me I had mercury poisoning,” Simmons confided.
He states that they pierced a plank, an inch thick, with a bullet made of mercury.
He was demoted at the mercury News, and left the paper in 1997.
What tricks and legerdemains with which mercury does not cloak his thefts?
He was the Ulysses of pirates, the beloved not only of mercury, but of Minerva.
Slept in snow-drift that night in wet clothes, mercury 40 below.
Kutler, the mercury lobbyist, accompanied Klyuyev in meetings he held in Washington last year, according to the piece.
That means most of these planets orbit closer than mercury does to the Sun.
He went so far as to have rivers of mercury set up in his tomb, along with his famous thousand-soldier strong Terracotta Army.